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Beat the Winter blues!*

Wednesday, 15 June 2016, By Jack Smith

Winter is well and truly upon us. The days are shorter,
the temperature is colder, the bed seems warmer than outside and
the flu season seems to have struck everyone we know. In our
beautiful Australian climate we are sunloving, outdoor living
active people yet each year from June-August so many of us seek
shelter in our homes under blankets, doonahs with the help of a
warm cup of chocolate or hot dinner.

This period of hibernation can be a danger to our health,
hindering or even halting our exercise programs, weakening our
mental state and ability to continue on the path of living a
healthy life. Come summer time, there is a task at hand to
remove the "winter coat" we accumulated during the cold
months. During this hard period of eating and exercise we
regret all those mornings where we hit snooze on the alarm clock to
sleep that extra half hour instead of going to PT & group
exercise, we regret having all those hot roast meals with all the
trimmings instead of our healthier options, we regret being rugged
up indoors spreading our germs to the family who infect eachother
with the cold instead of getting some fresh air to clear the system
out.

YOU can make this change TODAY!

Choose to set the alarm for tomorrow morning's exercise
NOW

Decide to prepare a week of healthy choices instead of comfort
hot foods

Take action on increasing your vitamin and mineral intake to
boost your immune system and ward off the cold

Move your body. Get some fresh air instead of sitting at
home wallowing in the flu ridden house

Decide you will not waster another spring getting rid of the
excess of winter. Maintain your routine today!

Set a goal to achieve by the end of winter. You will need
to train throughout winter to achieve it

Embrace the weather! Appreciate the chills and change of
temp, Australia is blessed with one of the best climates in the
world, we are so lucky that our cold days are still warm enough to
comfortably be outside.

Don't give in to what your mind tells you! Your mind is
like a muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it will
get!

Enjoy the Process! Love the feeling of getting healthier,
happier, fitter, stronger and overcoming what you thought were
massive blocks in the road.

Through these cold, dreary months it's easy to become depressed
and down, as all the people around you are in a worse state of
health and mind. By maintaining an exercise and eating
standard through winter you will not only ward off flu & feel
great, but your attitude towards winter and the conditions around
you will drastically improve. So seize the day, fight back
against winter and bring the best version of you out today!